Industrial Design in Vietnam

Before the NOIP issues any of notices specified at Point 17.1.a of this Circular, an applicant may request the NOIP to record the transfer of his/her application to another person.

Where an applicant for registration of an industrial design knows that such industrial design is being used by another person without prior use right for commercial purposes[...]

(1) Filing the application In order to obtain right for industrial design in Viet Nam,you must file the application for granting an industrial design patent,directly or by mail,to the National Office of Intellectual Property of Viet Nam (NOIP) or its brand offices in Ho Chi Minh City or Da Nang. Organizations,individuals...

An application for a Industrial design registration filed with the NOIP shall be subject to formality examination for evaluating its validity[...]

The required document for filling industrial design in Vietnam is as follows:

1. novel industrial design - An industrial design shall be deemed to be new if it significantly differs from other industrial designs which have been publicly disclosed by use or by means of written descriptions or in any other form either inside or outside Vietnam prior to the filing date or the priority date, as applicable, of the application for registration of the industrial design.

Filing the Vietnam Industrial design application is carried out as following:

On the date of expiration of the time limit for substantive examination of an application at the latest,the NOIP shall send to the applicant one of the following notices[...]

1. General provisions on renewal of validity of protection titles Industrial design patents shall have a validity starting from the grant date and expiring at the end of 5 years after the filing date and may be renewed for two consecutive terms, each of 5 years. Request for renewal of...

1. Definition Industrial design means a specific appearance of a product embodied by three-dimensional configurations, lines, colors, or a combination of these elements. Products herein are understood to mean articles, tools, equipments, or parts used for assembling such products, manufactured by industrial or handicraft methods, with a structure and clear function,...

Question:  I would like to register some furniture designs in Vietnam. Please an example of the paper work of my designs (4 pages with technical drawing). Could you advise the cost per designs and time scale to register such designs in Vietnam? Thank you Answer:  Regarding your enquiry concerning the subject matter,...

SBLAW provides legal service for registering industrial design in Cambodia as follows: Providing advices on the industrial design registration procedure in Cambodia before officially filing Industrial design application in Cambodia. Preparing all the necessary forms and documents for Industrial design registration in Cambodia for the CLIENT's execution; Monitoring and following up the...

SBLAW would like to provide the client the legal procedure to register industrial design in Vietnam as follows: 1. Procedure  Protection criteria: A industrial design shall be eligible for protection in the form of the grant of a Patent for Industrial Design when it satisfies the following conditions: Being novel Being of an inventive...

SBLAW is honored to act as the intellectual property representative for VITACO Import-Export Co., Ltd., assisting in the successful registration and protection of the industrial design for its fish sauce product label. Filed under application No. 3-2023-02525 with the Intellectual Property Office of Vietnam on October 26, 2023, the design...

Documents identifying an industrial design registered for protection in an industrial design registration application include a description and a set of photos or drawings of such industrial design[...]